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Hollywood is a magical place where you can go from the mail room to the board room. It takes time to build a career and a lot of small roles before the big break. But one major role can turn you into a household name. Some of Hollywood’s hottest actors have small roles in memorable movies that will leave you shocked you missed them.
Melissa McCarthy in Charlie’s Angels
McCarthy is a comedic powerhouse who became a household name after 2011's Bridesmaids. It may be hard to believe that she was once a near-extra who called Lucy Liu a b**ch in Charlie’s Angels. She also had a small role in Go and was featured in the trailer.
Jennifer Lawrence on My Super Sweet 16 promos
Lawrence is so successful at the young age of 23, it can be hard to believe she's been in the business for years already. Lawrence started off playing the title character's daughter on The Bill Engvall Show, and found a spot in these promos for a particularly regrettable reality series.
Paula Patton in Hitch
Patton's relationship with Robin Thicke post-Blurred Lines has put her name on everyone’s lips. She has found success in the Mission Impossible films and has some buzz around her film career. But back in 2005, her first role was in this questionably funny Will Smith comedy.
Christina Hendricks on Undressed
Hendricks found the role of a lifetime as Mad Men's waning queen bee Joan Holloway. Long before playing the strong but unfortunate advertising agency secretary, however, Hendricks appeared on MTV’s sex-fueled soap Undressed.
Rooney Mara in Youth in Revolt
Before her ascension to films like The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Side Effects, Mara starred in this forgettable Michael Cera offbeat comedy. With this movie, she kicked off her pattern of playing intense, intelligent, and sexual characters... a pratice that has served her well.
Rashida Jones &amp; Steven Moyer in Ny-Lon
Granted, you wouldn't really call a starring role in a series a "small" one. However, this British TV show is widely unknown in the States, so we'll count it. Jones played a New Yorker in a long-distance relationship with a British businessman (Moyer).
Jane Krakowski in Vacation
People remember Krakowski for 30 Rock and her role on Ally McBeal, but she began the trade as a child actor. She delivers one of the most memorable lines in this popular 1980s comedy.
Steve Carell in Curly Sue
Now one of Hollywood’s biggest comedy actors, Carell started his film career with a non-speaking role. He might not be the first actor to play a background waiter, but very few of those were called "Tesio."
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Long-running medical comedy Scrubs may be getting a new life soon — this time on stage. Creator Bill Lawrence is working on developing the show into a musical. We're absolutely on board, especially if The World's Most Giant Doctor is involved. Here's why:
1. Theater nerds are in charge.
Lawrence and star Zach Braff — who will most likely be somehow involved creatively — are self-professed drama dorks. Braff, in fact, is about to start his own Broadway run in the musical version of the Woody Allen backstage comedy Bullets Over Broadway. Lawrence told Entertainment Weekly that he's in the process of choosing the show's composer, and "looking at everything from the singer-songwriter hip version that you can say they did with Spring Awakening to the type of sardonic Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson-type stuff." See? He knows shows! Good ones!
2. The structure is perfect.
What are Broadway musical numbers if not miniature fantasy sequences? And those fantasy and flashback sequences are the guts of Scrubs. J.D.'s inner monologue is just begging to be converted into a series of flashy production numbers. There are also plenty of "real life" musical moments to mine — how about a Greek chorus role for Ted's barbershop quartet?
3. They're going to cast the hell out of it.
Lawrence also confirmed for EW that we won't be seeing Braff, Donald Faison, or Sarah Chalke taking their Sacred Heart characters to the stage. He wants to cast "Broadway musical stars" instead. We love the original team to pieces, but that's no excuse not to stack the Broadway ensemble with some serious belters. "The reason that I cast Skylar Astin in Ground Floor was to have him close to me," Lawrence said. If Braff will be succeeded by the Pitch Perfect star (and Broadway vet), we're fine with it.
4. It already has!
In its sixth season, Scrubs produced a musical episode with songs by the Tony-winning composers of Avenue Q. We love them all, but there's just something about a guy love between two guys.
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For the bulk of every Rocky and Bullwinkle episode, moose and squirrel would engage in high concept escapades that satirized geopolitics, contemporary cinema, and the very fabrics of the human condition. With all of that to work with, there's no excuse for why the pair and their Soviet nemeses haven't gotten a decent movie adaptation. But the ingenious Mr. Peabody and his faithful boy Sherman are another story, intercut between Rocky and Bullwinkle segments to teach kids brief history lessons and toss in a nearly lethal dose of puns. Their stories and relationship were much simpler, which means that bringing their shtick to the big screen would entail a lot more invention — always risky when you're dealing with precious material.
For the most part, Mr. Peabody &amp; Sherman handles the regeneration of its heroes aptly, allowing for emotionally substance in their unique father-son relationship and all the difficulties inherent therein. The story is no subtle metaphor for the difficulties surrounding gay adoption, with society decreeing that a dog, no matter how hyper-intelligent, cannot be a suitable father. The central plot has Peabody hosting a party for a disapproving child services agent and the parents of a young girl with whom 7-year-old Sherman had a schoolyard spat, all in order to prove himself a suitable dad. Of course, the WABAC comes into play when the tots take it for a spin, forcing Peabody to rush to their rescue.
Getting down to personals, we also see the left brain-heavy Peabody struggle with being father Sherman deserves. The bulk of the emotional marks are hit as we learn just how much Peabody cares for Sherman, and just how hard it has been to accept that his only family is growing up and changing.
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But more successful than the new is the film's handling of the old — the material that Peabody and Sherman purists will adore. They travel back in time via the WABAC Machine to Ancient Egypt, the Renaissance, and the Trojan War, and 18th Century France, explaining the cultural backdrop and historical significance of the settings and characters they happen upon, all with that irreverent (but no longer racist) flare that the old cartoons enjoyed. And oh... the puns.
Mr. Peabody &amp; Sherman is a f**king treasure trove of some of the most amazingly bad puns in recent cinema. This effort alone will leave you in awe.
The film does unravel in its final act, bringing the science-fiction of time travel a little too close to the forefront and dropping the ball on a good deal of its emotional groundwork. What seemed to be substantial building blocks do not pay off in the way we might, as scholars of animated family cinema, have anticipated, leaving the movie with an unfinished feeling.
But all in all, it's a bright, compassionate, reasonably educational, and occasionally funny if not altogether worthy tribute to an old favorite. And since we don't have our own WABAC machine to return to a time of regularly scheduled Peabody and Sherman cartoons, this will do okay for now.
If nothing else, it's worth your time for the puns.
3/5
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Young adult fiction sure loves dividing people into cliques. In the Harry Potter series, we had the four houses that made up Hogwarts. In The Hunger Games, we have the districts of Panem. And now in Divergent, the teens of a dystopian version of Chicago are split into five different factions. But instead of a charming musty hat guiding you to your destiny, the people of Divergent have to take a test to determine which caste you belong to. Take a look at our guide to see what each faction is all about, and which group you'd fit into if the factions existed in the real world.
ERUDITE
The Erudite are the thinkers of the Divergent society, and uphold the values of knowledge, curiosity, and intelligence. In real life, the Erudite would be the scientists and engineers that strive to move humanity forward while the rest of us are waiting on the next BuzzFeed poll to tell us what to do next.Favorite TV Show: Bill Nye The Science Guy. While the rest of us slack jawed yokels were too busy watching Power Rangers as kids, the members of Erudite were brushing up on their chemisty with Mr. Nye on Saturday mornings, right before settling into some light calculus computations before nap time. Favorite Movie: Gravity. Members of Erudite absolutely love to hate-watch Gravity and point out all of the bad science. "Ugh! Look at the arc of George Clooney's trajectory. People actually like this? Can't they see the inaccuracies?" Consequently, members of Erudite are not invited to many movie nights.Celebrity Icon: Neil DeGrasse Tyson. When an astrophysicist somehow breaks into the public consciousness and becomes a pseudo celebrity, you can bet that members of Erudite will follow him to the end of the universe, except any member of Erudite worth his Mensa membership will tell you that the universe is infinite and the notion of following someone to the end of it is utter drivel.
ABNEGATION
In Divergent, Abnegation is the bastion for the selfless. They live to serve the community before themselves and make up the society's council. In our world, the members of Abnegation would probably be the kinds of people who give up their seats on the bus, or the guy that lets you cut in line when you only have one item. They are truly the best of us all.Favorite TV Show: How I Met Your Mother. Ted's kids must have the patience of a Buddhist monk to listen to the inane ramblings of their father for nine straight years. Just get to the point already. They only wanted to be polite, and now a decade of their lives are gone. That story better have one heck of an ending.Favorite Movie: Toy Story. These little plastic and plush characters live solely to entertain a gigantic human child-monster named Andy for a couple years, only to end up in the five cent bin at a yard sale. Those toys are truly selflessCelebrity Icon: Sean Bean. No single actor has sacrificed himself in more films than Bean has. He's made dying for other people his signature move.
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AMITY
In Divergent, Amity is the home of the peaceful. The faction is full of hand-holding, friendly smiles, and togetherness. In real life, members of Amity are those impossibly cheeful people that are way too chipper on their morning commutes.
Favorite TV Show: The Joy of Painting. What's more peaceful than watching Bob Ross paint a woodsy landscape? The gentle brushstrokes, the soothing instruction in that soft voice. All that encouragment. Bob Ross is Amity personified.Favorite Movie: Despicable Me. Few things are more peaceful than watching the icy heart of a super villain melt in the hands of three little girls.Celebrity Icon: Michael Cera. The most harmless living thing on the planet. We can't imagine the mush-mouthed actor raising his voice above a low whisper. A fistfight with Cera probably feels like a gentle hug from a good friend.
CANDOR
In Divergent, the Candor faction lives by truth. They only see the world in black and white, which makles them excellent upholders of the law. In real life, the members of Candor would be those people with serious foot in mouth syndrome. "Oh really? I gained some weight? Thanks for noticing so loudly."
Favorite TV Show: Veep. Veep cuts through all the political fluff and honestly shows how politicians really get down when the cameras aren’t trained on them. We all know the people on Capitol Hill are constantly swearing like crusty pirates. Joe Biden loves himself a four-letter word.Favorite Movie: Liar Liar. Watching Jim Carrey being forced into telling the truth in every aspect of life is probably the most satisfying thing a member of Candor can achieve. Yes, that pen is definitely blue, Mr. Carrey.Celebrity Icon: Jennifer Lawrence. Known for lacking any sort of filter, Lawrence seems to like to say whatever loose rambling thought pops into her mind, yet she still manages to be charming. Most people who are way too honest tend to be the absolute worst. Take notes members of Candor, be more like JLaw.
DAUNTLESS
The Dauntless faction are the brave. They are the warriors of the Divergent society, and are tasked with protecting the community at large. In real life, members of Dauntless would still be soldiers, but fighting real conflicts and skirmishes across the globe. They would also be the thrill-seekers, jumping off buildings and out of perfectly good airplanes for fun.Favorite TV Show: Game of Thrones. Swords, sorcery, dragons, and betrayal. The would-be soldiers of Dauntless would love getting their hands dirty in the land of Westeros.Favorite Movie: Brave. Well, duh.Celebrity Icon: Tom Cruise. A man brave (or crazy) enough to do all of his own stunts, and brave (definitely crazy) enough to be the posterboy for Scientology. The man has no fear.
Divergent hits theaters March 21. You can check showtimes and purchase advanced tickets at Movietickets.com.
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Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence is in the early stages of developing a musical based on his hit medical sitcom. The comedy starring, Zach Braff and Donald Faison, ran for nearly a decade between 2001 and 2010, and Lawrence has confirmed he is in the process of bringing the hospital show back in the form of a stage musical.
He tells Entertainment Weekly, "One of the things we really cared about on the show was that we always incorporated not only pop music, but a lot of singing and songwriting, ranging from an a cappella group to a full-blown musical episode."
Lawrence is planning to incorporate modern songs, following the same route as other musicals which have been inspired by movies or books.
He adds, "If I did Scrubs, I would do it as the Legally Blonde or Wicked model. It's all the same characters... We're combining two of our best stories with what we're allowed to cull and choose from our best comedic moments and fantasies from nine years of the show."
Braff isn't expected to star in the stage adaptation.

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I like puns. If they are done well. The problem is that they are often done badly. Chelsea Handler's new book, "Uganda Be Kidding Me" falls squarely in that category. What's it supposed to mean? Some dumb version of "You Gotta Be Kidding Me?" It also just made me wish that she would go away. Yes, bad puns offend me that much.
I have never been a big fan of Handler's — yes, I've watched her show. It's not a blind dislike here. But I never understood why her doomed network sitcom, Are You There, Chelsea? starring Laura Prepon, even got greenlit. It's a good thing Prepon, who I have been a big fan of since her days on That 70's Show, moved on to the far superior Orange Is the New Black.
She's far from the only person that I wish would see their Fame Clock expire: Carrot Top, pretty much all of the talking heads on Fox News, Kim Kardashian... Handler first really got on my bad side with her very tasteless turn as the host of the MTV Video Music Awards in 2010 (though I still think they should just have been called the MTV Reality Show Awards by that time). It's probably a telling point that she wasn't deemed fit to return by an awards show that once had Madonna writhe around on stage in a wedding dress while singing, "Like A Virgin."
Of course, many may point out a big reason that she got her show in the first place was because she was dating Ted Haubert, the head of the E! Entertainment Network at the time before he went to NBC. (Where her Prepon-led show landed. Hmm.) While romantic relationships between actors and their producers are not terribly uncommon, we're not brought to consider nepotism in regards to Katey Sagal on Sons of Anarchy (she is Kurt Sutter's wife) or Christa Miller on Scrubs and Cougar Town (she's married to Bill Lawrence). Because they actually have talent, and we couldn't imagine anyone else playing their respective characters, regardless of off-screen connections.
So, maybe the clock will strike on Handler's Fame Clock. Then someone equally undeserving will step in.
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It's no secret that directors often cast the same actors over and over in different projects. After all, they've made a strong connection, proven that they work well together, and have become like a cinematic family. So, when David O. Russell needed to cast his latest film, American Hustle, he didn't have to look far for talent; he chose actors he had previously directed in the Oscar-nominated films The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook. With that much talent and camaraderie on board, its no wonder that the film has been getting a great deal of awards buzz, and even earned 7 Golden Globe nominations.
But Russell isn't the only director to have found success with a particular combination of actors. In fact, some of the most critically and financially successful films in recent years have come from similar teams. In honor of American Hustle hitting theaters this weekend, we've decided to rank five famous director and actor teams in order to determine who has the most successful partnership of them all.
5. David O. Russell: Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, and Jennifer Lawrence. Though the newest addition to the list, the Russell and Co. partnership has already had a great deal of critical success. Adams and Bale starred in 2010's The Fighter, which earned Russell and Adams each an Oscar nomination, and a Best Supporting Actor win for Bale. Russell followed that up with last year's Silver Linings Playbook, for which he was nominated for Best Director once again, along with Cooper's Best Actor nod and Lawrence's Best Actress win. Despite that, they still rank the lowest on our list, as they've been a team for the shortest amount of time. Sure, everything they've touched has turned to Oscar gold so far, but it's still too soon to tell whether or not their partnership will stand the test of time.
By The Numbers: Number of films made together: 2 for everyone Years of Partnership: 3 (Adams and Bale), 2 (Cooper and Lawrence) Highest grossing film: Silver Linings Playbook, $132 million Number of Oscar nominations: 3 (Russell), 1 (Bale, Lawrence, Adams, Cooper) Number of Oscar wins: One each for Lawrence and Bale Most Critically Acclaimed Film: Silver Linings Playbook, 92%
4. Christopher Nolan: Michael Caine, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Cillian Murphy. Nolan's team is by far the most financially successful, due primarily to all of these actors playing significant roles in the Batman franchise. When it came time for Nolan to branch out from superheroes into an original film, Inception, he took along Caine and Murphy, both of whom have worked with the director for a long time. It was working on Inception that he discovered Cotillard and Gordon-Levitt, who he promptly cast in the final Batman film. But despite their massive box office success, this team earns the fourth spot on our list due to Cotillard and Gordon-Levitt being such recent additions.
By The Numbers: Number of films made together: 6 (Caine), 4 (Murphy), 2 (Cotillard and Gordon-Levitt)Years of Partnership: 8 (Caine and Murphy), 3 (Cotillard and Gordon-Levitt)Highest Grossing film: The Dark Knight, $553.3 millionNumber of Oscar nominations: 2 (Nolan)Number of Oscar wins: 0Most Critically Acclaimed Film: The Dark Knight, 94%
3. Wes Anderson: Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, and Owen Wilson. Though this team is neither the most critically or financially successful group on the list, they earn their number-three spot by being one of the more iconic groupings in cinema. Whenever Anderson makes a new film, it's guaranteed that these actors will appear in some capacity, and they have come to epitomize the director's cinematic style and tone. With nearly 20 years of work under their belts, there's no doubt that this team will be one that endures for much longer; with Anderson's films gaining more and more critical and public attention, we're sure it's only a matter of time before they catch up to the other teams in both awards and box office returns.
By The Numbers: Number of films made together: 7 (Bill Murray and Owen Wilson), 5 (Jason Schwartzman)Years of Partnership: 17 (Wilson), 15 (Murray and Schwartzman)Highest Grossing film: Moonrise Kingdom ($45.5 million)Number of Oscar nominations: 3 (Anderson)Number of Oscar wins: 0Most Critically Acclaimed Film: Moonrise Kingdom, 94%
2. Tim Burton: Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp. This team is a good example of the adage "too much of a good thing." Although fans have enjoyed seeing Bonham Carter and Depp onscreen together for years, Burton's insistence on working primarily with these two actors has resulted in the partnership becoming something of a punchline, and has left many people blaming the recent decline in the quality of Burton's films on his reluctance to embrace new actors or styles. Despite this, the three of them have become one of the most iconic teams in film history, and have enjoyed a great deal of both critical and box office success over the time that they have spent working together. Depp and Burton also hold the distinction of having made the most films together out of all of the teams on our list, and many of those films are considered to be modern classics.
By The Numbers: Number of films made together: 8 (Depp), 7 (Carter)Years of Partnership: 23 (Depp), 12 (Carter)Highest grossing film: Alice in Wonderland ($334 million)Number of Oscar nominations: 0Number of Oscar wins: 0Most Critically Acclaimed Film: Sweeney Todd, 86%
1. The Coen Brothers: Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Frances McDormand, and John Turturro. It makes sense that the director(s) with the most successful team of actors would, themselves, be a team. Over the course of almost 30 years — the longest partnership of any team on the list — Joel and Ethan Coen have directed their group of favorite actors in some of the best and most critically acclaimed films in recent history. They also hold the record for the most Oscar nominations any grouping on this list has received, and that's without including the clean sweep of awards that No Country For Old Men earned in 2007. They've also got the chance to put more distance between themselves and the other teams on this list this year, as the Goodman-starring Inside Llewyn Davis has been getting a lot of awards attention.
By The Numbers: Number of films made together: 6 (McDormand, Goodman, Buscemi), 4 (Turturro)Years of Partnership: 29 (McDormand), 26 (Goodman), 23 (Buscemi and Turturro)Highest Grossing film: Burn After Reading, $60 millNumber of Oscar nominations: 5 (Coen Brothers), 1 (McDormand)Number of Oscar wins: One each for the Coen Brothers and McDormand. Most Critically Acclaimed Film: Fargo, 94%
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Quentin Tarantino recently made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and it was pretty awesome. First of all, they showed footage of the first time he was a guest on the show ... over 20 years ago ... and his hair was insane.
And then he announced that his next movie is going to be a western. Let’s all just take a moment to get psyched about a new Quentin Tarantino movie [MOMENT]. And also, a western? Not a Django Unchained sequel (because that film is perfect and needs not have a part two), but a brand, spankin’ new western? That’s plenty to get excited about (though some folks might disagree). And although we have no information about the plot, storyline, or characters, we’re gonna go ahead and start fantasy casting this movie right now. Here are a few actors we hope turn up in the next Tarantino classic:
Uma Thurman
These two haven't teamed up since Kill Bill -- how is that even possible? And although Kill Bill Vol. 3 is rumored to be on the way, we'd love to see Uma get back in the saddle (pun intended) with Tarantino's new western. Can't you just see her right now, slinging guns and singing "Home On The Range"? Because that's exactly what she'll be doing, obviously.
Christoph Waltz
Last year Waltz won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Django, and we need to see more of these two together. Waltz is one of those brilliant actors who has the ability to pull off both dramatic and comedic roles, which makes him a great match for Tarantino's unique style. Any movie involving the two of them (again) has a 97% chance of being awesome. And yes, that percentage is completely made up, but still probably accurate, considering how Django and Inglourious Basterds turned out.
Kerry Washington
Right now she's dominating the small screen as Olivia Pope on Scandal. But we think Tarantino could catapult Washington to full blown movie star status by giving her a big part in the new film. She was fantastic as Broomhilda in Django, but we'd love to see her get a little more (or a lot more) screen time in his new picture.
Samuel L. Jackson
Seeing as how he was the single greatest thing in Django Unchained (well, okay... there were many great things, but he was epic), we now expect to see him in every new Tarantino flick. This makes sense since he's pretty much been in all of the old ones. In fact, we should probably go ahead and pay homage to Jules:
Jennifer Lawrence
The only actor on this list who hasn't been in a Tarantino flick, we think it's high time these two got together. Lawrence (who just won big at the New York Film Critics Circle) is already en route to becoming one of the greats, and nabbing a role in Tarantino's new western could be kind of a huge deal. Worlds would collide, Katniss superfans everywhere would lose their minds, and J Law would make for an absolutely amazing cowgirl.
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Warning: The following contains major spoilers about the ending of Catching Fire.
We fans of American cinema are no strangers to the dreaded cliffhanger. Whether we are most ardently affixed to YA franchises that suggest more adventures yet to come next time around, or the comic book films that cap their features with mid-credit scenes that introduce entirely new narrative branches into the canon, we know what it's like to be teased. But in the vast majority of these cases, we're not left entirely without satisfaction. Movies from the Marvel Universe, the Tolkien collection, or the Harry Potter world will whet appetites for future movies, but will still wrap up their individual tales in self-contained stories. This is a task — no, a requirement of honest storytelling — that The Hunger Games: Catching Fire seems to have overlooked.
Following a very strong body of action and surprisingly substantial emotionality, Catching Fire closes its final scene mid-conversation, revealing to Katniss and the audience that she is at the center of a vast conspiracy to rise up and take down the Capitol — in on the antic are her mentor Haymitch Abernathy, her ally/rival Finnick Odair, and the Games master Plutarch Heavensbee, among others (a number of unspecified tributes included). The final minutes of the movie see Katniss injured and knocked unconscious in her electric defiance of the institution of the Hunger Games, picked up by helicopter, and revived in a rehabilitation center far outside of the arena's walls, only to be informed of the coup brewing around her.
In book form, the Catching Fire story closes on the down note of Katniss reflecting on the treachery that has overtaken her home, and gearing up for her mission to take on the Capitol. But in the movie, there is no reflection. There is no gearing. There's an outburst of expositional information, following by a wordless gasp by Jennifer Lawrence and an abrupt cut to black. It wasn't until the credits began to roll that I even realized the movie was over. It certainly didn't feel over.
Even when a piece of a series, a movie is a standalone work of art — much like a novel in an anthology. There should be an independent beginning and an independent end. You can set up for future stories all you want, but ideas and themes must come to a close (for better or worse) with the last fade to black, or else you've got yourself an unfinished product.
It speaks to the quality of the rest of Catching Fire that the movie doesn't leave us feeling entirely unsatisfied. For the most part, Francis Lawrence's first turn with the Hunger Games series delivers a lot of good will to fans and newcomers. But his (or the studio's) decision to cap the feature with a cliffhanger so blatant that it feels like it warrants a "Next week, on Lost..." isn't necessary to ensure that all those fans and newcomers will be back for more. We were already planning on seeing Mockingjay. You don't need to dangle the conclusion of this movie to make the beginning of the next one appealing.
But more worrisome than its affront to a single movie's story structure is what the Catching Fire ending indicates about the form we might find our movies taking. We're already tacking on teasers to every superhero flick in theaters; now are we going to be upping the ante with compulsory follow-up viewing if we want complete stories? If we want episodic narratives, we have television — a different kind of art form that is far better suited for the cliffhanger game (you don't have to wait a year to find out what happens next, just a week — maybe a summer — and you're guaranteed a ticket on opening night so long as you pay your cable bill). The experience of designating a night out for a few hours at the theater is, inherently, just that. An experience. Something you devote to and engage with, hoping for a complete journey. While there is no reason that one journey cannot propose our entry into another, that first one really should give you the very basic tenets of what you signed up for: a story.
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Couldn't stay up to see best moments of the late night talk shows? Check out what you missed this past week right here.
A Presidential PortraitFormer President George W. Bush's painted portrait of The Tonight Show host Jay Leno proves that he needs to pick a new hobby.
Throwing Gamers an XboneOn the eve of the worldwide release of Microsoft's new all-in-one entertainment and gaming console, Jimmy Fallon showed off the Xbox One by playing Kinect Sports with Will Forte.
A New Holiday TraditionWill Tracy Morgan's unique spin on "Elf on a Shelf" be a hit with the consumers?
Playing DeadBy holding his interview on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on the floor of the studio, Bill Cosby showed that he's either still a comedic genius or lost his marbles.
Lawrence of HysteriaAlthough she fought to save her life in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Jennifer Lawrence may have indicated in her interview with David Letterman that she might be fighting a severe case of hypochondria.
Like a Fine BurgundyLegendary anchorman Ron Burgundy bestowed upon Conan O'Brien an entire cornucopia of sage-like advice, such as using one's excrement to survive a prison riot.
Over a Slice of PieJon Stewart made peace with the city of Chicago over their dispute about the legitimacy of Chicago's deep dish pizza.
Never Coming Back to AmericaWondering why they never made a sequel to Coming to America? On The Arsenio Hall Show, Eddie Murphy blamed actual African princes and their insistence to collect their, ahem, royalty checks.
Thanks for NothingRelish in the ignorance of common Americans by watching Jay Leno fruitlessly asking random pedestrians about Thanksgiving.
Cruelty in Under 140 CharactersAnonymity at its worst was on fully display with Jimmy Kimmel's latest installment of "Celebrity Mean Tweets."
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